Regions | JOYLAND

Carla

Ben Loory -

Carla wasn't a waitress, but she played one in the diner. What she really wanted to do was take photographs. She used to tell...

Eaten

Anu Jindal -

When I was a child, in my backyard, there grew a sapodilla tree. In the summer my parents would send...

Traces of Hugh

Greg Chandler -

Veronica stormed off set and just kept going. She blotted her sweaty, heavily made up face with the linen scrap she kept in the...

Stop and Jack Bean

Amanda Ackerman -

Many problems still remain, but I am not angry. Why is that? I live in this room and that is all that I do....

Craft

Nicole Schultz -

I’m parked kitty-corner from Lisa Scoccar’s one-story prefab, squinting into binoculars against the bald May sun, across her open yard of rutted dirt scattered...

Jenna On Twitter

Shawn Syms -

Jenna is tweeting when she’s supposed to be painting. Ennui is the religion of my generation. The singer of her favourite band updates his own Twitter...

Thieves With Tiny Eyes: an excerpt

Joyland Magazine -

The Blackbird This is supposed to be a love letter. The relationship will start in tears. One of the girls, in the hallway, will spit...

Backbreak

Michelle Berry -

She was bending down, red robe held tight, reaching for the newspaper, when it happened. The paper, wrapped in a pinkish plastic bag slightly...

Dummy

Eric Freeze -

It’s not easy, being green. —Kermit the Frog I could feel Jordan’s hands working up and down my back. He tweaked my shoulder blade and my...

That’s How Wrong My Love Is

Lynne Tillman -

A while back, I watched a pair of mourning doves in their nest every day, watched as one then the other sat on an...